In 2010 I was depressed and miserable and convinced that the whole world was broken.

A good friend of mine and I were texting for 10ish hours a day, about technology, about education, about the problems in the world.

I was bummed because I couldn't afford to go to college. I was bummed because I was convinced that college was, largely, a scam. I thought that there might be a path to fixing it.

But what we found was that everyone serious about education understood that college was a scam, and that education there were serious people with serious plans to fix education in general, and that the problem was governments and corporations.

Usually, when I tell this story, at this point I say "so we opened a record store" which is true! But I have rediscovered going through these old documents that this is an oversimplification.

Finally, I have to address the element in the room. Is Buck - as #HaydenDonnell suggested in theSpinoff - a hot sheep?

"@jestermaxxing posted an image from Kiwibank’s own ad material and sees their DMCA request as a tacit acknowledgement from the bank itself that it, seemingly accidentally, has created a hot sheep."

https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/03-10-2026/kiwibank-is-desperately-trying-to-stop-people-saying-they-want-to-fuck-its-sheep-mascot

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Me: "The internet was a mistake."

** Monkey paw curls **

Me: "Well, fuck."
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@rafial We're a couple of the guy's loops through it, only thing that makes sense.

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@mdhughes I'm pretty sure we are living out _Kaleidoscope Century_ at this point

@dtauvdiodr yeah, i'm definitely not sure how much of a job I'll be able to make it, but I'm gonna give it a shot. 🤣

@arstechnica lmao it better fry me chicken like the KFC console!